CITY OF SANTA CLARITA CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING 15:30 P.M. MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING CITY OF SANTA CLARITA CITY COUNCIL 6:30 P.M. OCTOBER 24, 2000 CALL TO ORDER Mayo Dacy called to ode the special meeting of the City Council at 5:35 p.m. ROLL CALL All Councilmembes wee pesent with the exception of Councilmembe Smyth. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Thee was none. CLOSED SESSION Motion by Weste, second by Fey, to add a subsequent need item to the Closed Session agenda to confe with legal counsel egading the Vetean's Memoial Popety, finding thee is an immediate need to discuss the matte, and that the need aose subsequent to the posting of this agenda. On oll call vote: Ayes: Fey, Kella, Weste, Dacy Motion caied. Cal Newton, City Attoney, advised of the need to conduct a Closed Session fo the pupose of holding a: CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL-Anticipated Litigation Govenment Code Section 54956.9(c) - two mattes CONFERENCE wa REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATOR Govenment Code Section 54956.8 Popety Location: Owne/Negotiating Paty: Amidi Patneship Unde Negotiation: Pice and Tems Vetean's Memoial Popety A 19,145 squae foot pacel, zoned CC (Community Commecial) located in the Newhall Community on the cone of Maket Steet and Newhall Avenue.
RECESS AND RECONVENE Mayo Dacy ecessed the meeting to closed session at 5:37 p.m. and econvened the meeting at 6:42 p.m. CITY A1TORNEY ANNOUNCEMENT Cal Newton, City Attoney, announced that in Closed Session the Council authoized paticipation as amicus, at no cost to the City, with the City of Long Beach in the matte of Lim v. City of Long Beach concening adult business egulations. ADJOURNMENT Mayo Dacy adjouned the special meeting at 6:44 p.m. CITY CLERK'S ANNOUNCEMENT Shaon Dawson, City Clek, announced that anyone wishing to addess an item on the agenda should fill out a equest to speak and submit it to the City Clek befoe the item is announced by the Mayo. INVOCATION Mayo Po Tem Weste gave the invocation. CALL TO ORDER Shaon Dawson, City Clek, called to ode the egula meeting of the City Council a:t 6:47 p.m. ROLL CALL All Councilmembes wee pesent with the exception of Councilmembe Smyth. FLAG SALUTE Mayo Po Tem Weste led the flag salute. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Addessing the Council was Channing Licon, Deboah Chastain, Steve Kehli, Roy Wilkeson, Jim McCain, Elizabeth Pope, Alex Stewat, Roge Page, Ginge Page, Loaine Reynolds, Jim Reynolds, Bad Melvin, Jon Woodad, Bonnie Fleischman, Jey Fleischman, Loi Hoton-Guaini and Heny Schoz egading the poposed Tansit Maintenance Facility at Ruethe Avenue; Robet Akow egading Time Wane Cable; Allen Penose egading Robinson Ranch; Lynne Plambeck egading candidates fo the.. CLWA Boad; Isaac Liebeman egading gowth; and Galtond Hollatl egading a paking ticket. Two witten co=ents wee submitted egading the poposed Tansit Maintenance Facility. STAFF COMMENTS Geoge Caavalho, City Manage, advised that staff would set up a meeting with the homeownes egading the poposed Tansit Maintenance Facility. AWARDS/RECOGNITIONTOMEMBERSOFTHECOMMUNITY Thee wee none. 2
PRESENTATIONS TO THE CITY Thee wee none. EXECUTIVE MEETING This time has been set aside fo Councilmembes to eview the agenda and obtain any futhe infomation that may be needed. (This item was taken following the appoval of the agenda and minutes.) Motion by Weste, second by Fey, to conside Item 18 following the Consent Calenda. Heaing no objections, it was so odeed. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Motion by Weste, second by Fey, to appove the agenda, pulling Items 2, 4 and 10 fom the Consent Calenda. Heaing no objections, it was so odeed. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Motion by Weste, second by Kella, to appove the minutes of the Octobe 10, 2000 special and egula meetings and the Octobe 17, 2000 special meeting. On oll call vote: Ayes: Fey, Kella, Weste, Dacy Motion caied. ITEMl READING OF ORDINANCE TITLES By listing the odinance titles on the public agenda and placing an item on the Consent Calenda fo Council to waive futhe eading of all odinances whose titles appea on the public agenda, this eading equiement is satisfied once Council appoves the Consent Calenda item. Detemine that the titles to all odinances which appea on this public agenda have been ead and waive futhe eading. ITEM2 REGIONAL AIRPORT PLAN FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A coalition of ove 95 cities, counties and govenmental agencies ae woking to develop a egional solution to the damatically inceasing aviation demand in Southen Califonia. The Coalition is united in suppot of a plan that constains Los Angeles Intenational Aipot (LAX) to the capacity of its existing facilities and faily distibutes the benefits and budens of ai co=ece in Southen Califonia. 8
Motion by Fey, second by Kella, to efe the Regional Aipot Plan fo Southen Califonia to the Noth County Tanspotation Coalition fo eview. On oll call vote: Ayes: Kella, Weste, Fey, Dacy Absent: None Motion caied. ITEMS REQUEST FOR A 180-DAY COMMENT PERIOD FOR THE LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (LAX) MASTER PLAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR)IENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) Officials at Los Angeles Wold Aipots (LAWA) expect the LAX Maste Plan Daft EIR/EIS to be eleased in Novembe 2000. The plan calls fo doubling passenge taffic and tipling cago taffic at LAX by 2015. The Daft EIR/EIS took seven yeas to wite, and it is impeative that the geneal public and technical expets have an adequate oppotunity to thooughly eview and espond to this poposal. Adopt a esolution of suppot. ITEM4 ESTABLISHING COUNCIL NORMS AND PROCEDURES The pupose of this esolution is to establish noms and pocedues fo City officials, staff, and membes of the public. Addessing the Council on this item was John Steffen. submitted. One witten co=ent was Motion by Weste, second by Kella, to appove an amendment to Section XI, paagaph B to delete the wods "Notes in Closed Session should not be taken; howeve," esulting in the sentence beginning with the wods "If a Council membe ". On oll call vote: Ayes: Kella, Weste, Fey, Dacy Motion caied. Motion by Fey, second by Weste, to adopt a esolution establishing Council noms and pocedues fo Council meetings and elated functions and activities, as amended. 4
On oll call vote: Ayes: Fey, Kella, Weste, Dacy. Motion caied. ITEM5 TAX SHARING RESOLUTION FOR SANITATION DISTRICT ANNEXATION NO. 313 A standad pocedue tax shaing esolution to establish tax incement funding fo Sanitation Distict No. 26 fo the newly ceated assessment aea fo multi-family complexes on Megan Dive in the unincopoated aea of Los Angeles County noth of Via Pincessa and west of the Antelope Valley Feeway in ode to povide wastewate teatment sevices included in Sanitation Distict Annexation No. 313. Adopt a esolution appoving and accepting the negotiated exchange of popety tax evenues esulting fom Sanitation Distict Annexation No. 813. ITEM6. MASTER CASE 00-021- ZONE CHANGE 00-001/GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT 00-001 - ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE TO CHANGE THE ZONE OF A PARCEL LOCATED AT 17178 SIERRA HIGHWAY.. On Octobe 10, 2000 the City Council conducted a heaing and the fist eading of an odinance appoving on Maste Case 00-021, a equest fo a zone change and geneal plan amendment. Adopt an odinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE.CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP (ZONE CHANGE 00-001) FOR 17178 SIERRA HIGHWAY, IN THE.CITY OF SANTA CLARITA ITEM7 DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BEVERAGE CONTAINER RECYCLING GRANT The City eceived a $42,500 gant fom the Califonia Depatment of Consevation to fund the ceation of public education and out each mateials to incease community awaeness of ecycling plastic, glass, aluminum and metal beveage containes fo a cash edemption. This item appopiates funds to implement the education pogam. Incease estimated evenues in Account No. 458-6714 by $42,500 and appopiate $42,500 to Account No. 3814-8001. Authoize the City Manage o designee to execute any contacts, ageements, o change odes aising out of the Depatment of Consevation Beveage Containe Recycling Gant. ITEMS 2000/2001 CITYWIDE CURB AND GUTTER FLOWLINE REALIGNMENT AND RESTORATION PROGRAM, PROJECT NO. M0016 - AWARD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT 5
This poject will impove dainage flow into local stom dains in vaious locations thoughout the City. Awad the constuction contact fo the 200012001 Citywide Cub and gutte Flowline Realignment and Restoation pogam, Poject No. M0016, to Kalban, Inc. in the amount of $145,000.00 and authoize a 15 pecent contingency expenditue in the amount of $17,000.00; appopiate $17,000.00 fom the Stomwate Utility Fund balance to Account No. M0016456-8001; authoize the City Manage o designee to execute all documents, subject to City Attoney appoval. ITEM9 CANYON HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS COURT IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT NO. P0012 - PROJECT ACCEPTANCE. This poject is a coopeative effot between the City 9f Santa Claita and the William S. Hat Union High School Distict. The poject povided impovements to the tennis couts located at Canyon High School. The impovements included esufacing, new lights, new windsceens, and new fencing. Accept the wok pefomeq by Malibu Pacific Tennis Couts, Inc. on the Canyon High School Tennis Cout Impovements, Poject No. P0012; diect the City Clek to file the Notice of Completion; diect staff to elease the 10 pecent etention 35 days afte the Notice of Completion is ecoded, povided no stop notices, as povided by law, have been filed. ITEMlO SANTA CLARITA SPORTS COMPLEX PHASE IV, PROJECT NO. F3007 - AWARD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT This poject will povide fo the constuction of a tenant impovement fo Building No. 1 at the Santa Claita Spots Complex. Featues of this tenant impovement involve the constuction of an open aena aea, co=unity ooms, multi-pupose ooms, child development aeas, teen development aeas, and vaious eceational pogam aea. These featues wee identified fo development in the Santa Claita Spots Complex Maste Plan, established duing Fiscal Yea 1998/99. Addessing the Council on this item was Kevin Kal epesenting Medallion Constuction. Motion by Fey, second by Weste, to awad the constuction contact fo the Santa Claita Spots Complex Building No. 1 (Phase IV), Poject No. F3007, to BEGL Constuction in the amount of $2,203,700.00 and authoize a contingency expenditue in the amount of $330,555.00; appove tansfe of $354,255.00 fom Account No. F3009001 8001 to Account No. F3007001-8001; and authoize the City Manage o designee to execute all documents, subject to City Attoney appoval. On oll call vote: Ayes: Kella, Weste, Fey, Dacy Motion caied. 6
ITEMll SANTA CLARITA SPORTS COMPLEX, PHASE V, PROJECT NO. F3009 - AWARD CONTRACT FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN SERVICES This item is fo the selection of an achitectual design consultant to complete all emaining design elements fo the Santa Claita Spots Complex. This poject encompasses featues that wee identified fo impovement to the Santa Claita Spots Complex as outlined in the Maste Plan, established duing Fiscal Yea 1998199. The items identified include the development of an Aquatics Cente, a 50-mete competition pool with bleache seating, a 25-mete pool with a competition diving tank, a community eceation pool, expansion of the existing Skate pak, a BMX/Wheel Spot Couse, an Adventue play aea, and miscellaneous eceation/pak site impovements. Awad the achitectual design sevices contact fo the Santa Claita Spots Complex, Phase V, Poject No. F3009, to WLC Achitects in an amount not to exceed $506,000.00 and authoize a 10 pecent contingency expenditue in the amount of $50,600.00; and authoize the City Manage o designee to execute all documents, subject to City Attoney appoval. ITEM12 APPROVE TRAIL NAME - ROBINSON RANCH TRAIL The Sand Canyon backbone tail system consists of seveal distinct segments of tails. These tail segments include noth and south alignments to the west of Sand Canyon Road, adjacent to Sand Canyon Road, and to the east of Sand Canyon Road along the U.S. Foest Sevice bounday. Appove the name "Robinson Ranch Tail" fo a segment of the Sand Canyon Tail system fom the Santa Claa Rive.to Ion Canyon Road. ITEM13 CHECK REGISTER NOS. 40 AND 41 Appoval of the check egistes. Adopt a esolution to appove and atify fo payment the demands pesented in Check Registes 40 and 41. Motion by Fey, second by Kella, to appove the balance of the Consent Calenda. On oll call vote: Ayes: Weste, Fey, Kella, Dacy Motion caied. ITEM18 NEW BUSINESS CONTRACT RENEWAL- FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY SERVICES Though action taken ealie duing this meeting, Item 18 was consideed at this time. RECESS AND RECONVENE Mayo Dacy called a ecesa at 8:32 p.m. and econvened the meeting at 8:49 p.m. 7
ITEM14 PUBLIC HEARING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 17.15.020 OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE Mayo Dacy opened the public heaing. Shaon Dawson, City Clek, stated that all notices equied have been povided. Vince Betoni, Planning Manage, epoted that in 1999, the Council adopted Odinance No. 99-4 which amended Section 17.15.020.A.2 of the City's Unified Development Code, which pohibited eceational vehicles fom being paked within the 20-foot font yad setback of esidential lots. In 2000, the Council adopted Odinance No. 00-3, which amended vaious sections of the City's Unified Development Code. This odinance contained appoximately 200 changes that codified city policies, diecto's intepetations and definitions. Odinance 00-3 mistakenly amended Odinance 99-4 and unintentionally emoved any changes to the Unified Development Code made by Odinance 99-4. No equests to speak wee submitted on this item. Mayo Dacy closed the public heaing. Motion by Kella, second by Weste, to adopt a esolution appoving the notice of exemption, intoduce an odinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE SANTA CLARITA MUNICIPAL CODE, READOPTING A PROVISION OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE REPEALED BY TYPOGRAPfilCAL ERROR IN PREVIOUS ORDINANCE, and pass to second eading. On oll call vote: Ayes: Kella, Weste, Fey, Dacy Motion caied. ITEM15 PUBLIC HEARING NEWHALL PARTNER'S GOLDEN VALLEY ROAD PROJECT Mayo Dacy opened the public heaing. Shaon Dawson, City Clek, epoted that all notices equied have been povided. Vince Betoni, Planning Manage, epoted that this item petains to Tact Map to subdivide appoximately 61.23 aces of RS (Residential Sububan) popety into 177 esidential lots; a zone change to incopoate the PD (Planned Development) ovelay zone on the popety; a vaiance to allow fo lot widths less than the 50 feet equied unde the Unified Development Code (UDC); a conditional use pemit to implement the PD ovelay zone; eview and cetification of the Effi; and an oak tee pemit that would allow fo the 8
i, emoval of seven oak tees. The poject would be equied to extend Golden Valley Road fom its teminus at Siea Highway, to Geen Mountain Road. Repesenting Newhall Patnes, Steve Hunte, Robet Cistiano and Hunt Baly made pesentations to the Council. Addessing the Council on this item was Bill Sloan, Pesident of the Montecito HOA; Linn Melvin epesenting Montecito HOA; Robet Gaett epesenting Montecito HOA; Key Entekin; Bill Fessle; Otto Lindemann; Gei Ball; Gafield Logan; Glenda Lewis; and Allan Cameon. Steve Hunte offeed a ebuttal and answeed questions of Councilmembes. In esponse to additional questions fom Council, staff povided infomation. Motion by Weste, second by Fey, to continue the public heaing to. Novembe 28, poviding diection staff as discussed. On oll call vote: Ayes: Fey, Kella, Weste, Dacy Motion caied. RECESS AND RECONVENE Mayo Dacy called a ecess at 11:05 p.m. and econvened the meeting at 11:16 p.m. ITEM16 UNFINISHED BUSINESS GOLDEN VALLEY ROAD/SOLEDAD INTERCHANGE - PROJECT NO. S3005 - PIONEER SQUARE ASSOCIATES, LLC AND LAGUNA MONARCH GROUP, INC., PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT (RIGHT-OF-WAY ACQUISITION) Council consensus to waive staff pesentation. In epot, Tony Nisich, Diecto of Tanspotation and Engineeing Sevices, advised that the City's Geneal Plan Ciculation Element identifies the ultimate oadway netwok fo the buildout of the Geneal Plan. This netwok includes Golden Valley Road. The constuction of Golden Valley Road calls fo the development of an Intesection/Intechange poject that cosses Soledad Canyon Road, and will eventually coss the Santa Claa Rive and connect to the futue extension of Newhall Ranch Road. Addessing the Council on this item was Douglas Hall and Allan Cameon. I Motion by Fey, second by Weste, to appove the Puchase and Sale Ageement with Pionee Squae Associates, LLC, and Laguna Monach Goup, Inc., subject to City Attoney appoval; incease estimated evenues by $4,000,000 to the Eastside Bidge & Thooughfae Distict, Account No 802-6193; appopiate $2,299,1100 to the Golden Valley Road/Soledad 9
Intechange Poject, No. 63005302-8620; appove land puchase fom Account No. 63005302-8620 of $2,130,000, and authoize payment of appoximately $19,043 fo tempoay constuction easements and $50,000 in escow fees incued by the sales tansactfon; authoize a change ode to the City's ageement with ASL Engineeing in the amount of $145,000, plus a 10 pecent contingency of $14,500, fo the design of the Golden Valley Road/Soledad Intechange Poject, subject to City Attoney appoval. On oll call vote: Ayes: Kella, Weste, Fey, Dacy Motion caied. ITEM17 NEW BUSINESS AN APPEAL OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S DENIAL ON A UNANIMOUS DECISION FOR A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT TO ALLOW AN EXISTING DANCE CLUB In epot, Vince Betoni, Planning Manage, advised that the Plaza Cinema Entetainment, Inc,, the applicant is poposing to opeate a full ba Wednesday though Satuday in theate one with dance club hous fom 9:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m. and dance club hous fom 9:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m. on Fiday and Satuday. No alcohol will be seved afte 1:45 a.m. No peson unde 21 yeas of age will be allowed in the dance club when alcohol is being seved. At the August 15, 2000 meeting, the Planning Commission voted 5-0 to deny the applicant's equest. As a esult of the denial, the applicant is appealing the decision to the City Council. Motion by Weste, second by Kella, to continue Maste Case No. 00-087, which consists of Conditional Use Pemit No. 00-006 until the egula meeting on Tuesday, Novembe 28, 2000 to accommodate the applicant's equest fo a postponement. Heaing no objections, it was so odeed. ITEM18 NEW BUSINESS CONTRACT RENEWAL- FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY SERVICES (This item was consideed following the Consent Calenda.) Ken Pulskamp, Assistant City Manage, epoted that duing the past yea, Montgomey and O'Donnell have woked on a vaiety of issues on behalf of the City including: secuing $2 million fo the tansit maintenance facility; continuing to build suppot within the Congessional delegation fo city-fiendly electonic commece legislation; pomoting awaeness among the Congessional delegation of the TMC poject; woking with the Senate Envionment and Public Woks staff and the League of Califonia Cities to amend 10
the povisions of the Fedeal Disaste Mitigation Act; secuing funds in FY 2001 to initiate a econnaissance study along the Santa Claa Rive. Addessing the Council on this item wee John R. O'Donnell and John H. Montgomey. Motion by Kella, second by Fey, to authoize the City Manage to enew the contact of John B. Montgomey and John R. O'Donnell fo fedeal legislative advocacy sevices in the amount of $4,000 pe month plus up to $4,000 fo expenses (contingent on mid-yea equest) fom Account No. 1210-8110, fo a total amount of $52,000, fo the peiod Novembe I, 2000 though Octobe SI, 2001. On oll call vote: Ayes: Fey, Kella, Weste, Dacy Noes; None Motion caied. COMMITTEE REPORTS Thee wee none. STAFF COMMENTS Geoge Caavalho, advised that a special study session is being scheduled fo Wednesday, Novembe 29, 2000 fom 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to discuss the Pota Bella poject. In esponse to inquiy fom Council, Cal Newton, City Attoney, advised he would povide a epot egading an attoney fom Buke Williams & Soensen assisting Geg Timache as a bownfield expet on this poject. COUNCILMEMBERCOMMENTS Councilmembes inquied about scheduling a meeting to discuss the Council agenda fomat and meeting with the College of the Canyons Boad. ADJOURNMENT Mayo Dacy adjouned the meeting at 11:38 p.m. A City Council Study Session will be held on Tuesday, Novembe 7, 2000 at 5:80 p.m. in the Centuy Room, 1" floo of City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Claita, CA 11
The next egula meeting of the City Council will be held Tuesday, Novembe 14, 2000 at 6:30 p.m. in the Council Chambe, 1" floo of City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Claita, CA. ATTEST: CTI'YCLERK 12